Product Marketing Manager for the IP telephony group within Cisco that currently ships over 2M units per year and generates over $2B+ in total revenue. •Senior Product Marketing Manager transitioning our legacy IP Phone portfolio representing over $1.5B in annual sales revenue, managing all phases of product transition strategy and successful market adoption in a short time frame.•Senior Product Marketing Manager overseeing and managing our go to market strategy, planning and execution of our multiplatform call control DECT handheld endpoints. Business objective is to capture 20% of a total TAM of $520M. •Led a team of multi-disciplinary individuals to create a new product roadmap strategy that focused on emerging markets, new technologies, and broad customer requirements focusing on top line and bottom line business objectives and schedules.•Maintained a portfolio of products that represented $1.25B gross revenue annually. •International team lead consisting of (10) key members creating an entirely new industrial design and user experience for our 5th generation of IP Phones. •Core team member responsible to analyze emerging technologies, market segments, competitor roadmaps and customer enhancements to determine future product planning and strategy.•Responsible to create and maintain Cisco existing IP Phone portfolio to maximize growth and market share trends. Reviewed traditional and emerging marketing analytics, product transition planning, cost management, overall portfolio growth opportunities, EOS/EOL planning, margin analysis, and adjacencies within other BU/TG’s. •Direct communication channel with customers, account teams and customer support engineers at all levels up to CxO’s to present product portfolio planning decisions and planning activities.•Responsible to work with Global Marketing Organization for external facing product launch announcements, activities and related roadshow materials.

Manager, New Product Operations for a $2B+ business unit that currently ships over 1.5M units per year. Responsible to develop and manage accelerated product introduction models across multiple business portfolios to meet critical time to market goals, quality and cost targets while maximizing flexibility and scalability to our customers.• Managed an international team all supporting new product development and product lifecycle management activities across the Collaboration and Communications Group product space. • Team created, ramped and optimized several new value chain strategies for high end/high volume products within Cisco• Leader of change with a culture of continuous improvement throughout the transformation of Product Operations with a focus on overall Product Lifecycle Management.• Responsible to create a product portfolio lifecycle processes allowing teams visibility and processes with which to focus and align teams on critical business objectives and targets.• Influenced manufacturing, marketing and engineering management to architect new strategies in worldwide manufacturing for both NPI and sustaining portfolios to maximize profitability and delivery of new product sets.